Re: the meaning of stateless

Brian Craft <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:40:39 -0700

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On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Will Hartung <[email protected]> wrote:

> TCP itself is a stateful protocol. We just don't see it at the application
> level. The application is ignorant that I've dialed the modem, had it
> connect it's carrier waves and that it's handshake and compression are
> working before I tunneled PPP over it in order to stand HTTPS on top of
> that.
>
> All of those are stateful in their own right, but have no effect on the
> application.
>
> These are separate issues.
>
>
Yes, exactly.